Undersea Cables Cut: Oops or Uh-oh?

You get a star for the find AND for NOT starting another thread! This story is unraveling on ATS with too many threads in my opinion. Thanks for
the information....this Sunday, I believe, is Iran's four week UN nuclear inspector's deadline (see my post above in this thread.) And the
following is from your link (bold added)...

Cable damage hits one million Internet users in UAE
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East
Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in
Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

Just my opinion....and more alarmingly....I never thought I would quote this man but here goes...The X Factor in 2008 by...gulp...Pat Buchanan...

The GOP is thus looking at a situation in 2008 where the party will be as divided as Democrats were with Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey,
Bobby Kennedy, and LBJ in 1968, while Democrats will be as united as the GOP was under Nixon. Had George Wallace, who got 13 percent, been out of the
'68 race, Nixon would have won in a landslide.

Is there anything that might alter the course of events and affect the war picture by 2008? Indeed: a preemptive strike on Iran.

Them cables have some serious shielding to protect them. Looks like it is multi jacketed with steel and plastics. If they was cut then whoever done it
has some insight of the exact latitude longitude locations as well has the equipment to do it. I doubt the average Joe could pull something off like
that.

After sleeze-balling past the Enron scandal and all the Iraqi Halliburton scandals ... last March they decided to move Cheney's Halliburton company
to Dubai, Abu Dabai.

Or

Another coincidence is that the Nuclear Inspection Team is about ready to finish and leave. Remember the Pre-Iraqi invasion when the Nuclear
Inspection Team found nada, nothing, zero, zilch, squat in Irag and Dubya made them go back in and search through Sadam's wife's underwear drawers
and everything? (Literally). Then ... the team still reporting finding "nothing" while Dubya was beating his WMD drum and he "kicked out" the
Inspectors at precisely 10 minutes before the end of the period. That way he could 'say' the mission was never completed.

Okay, well, if they haven't found out enough "dirt" on Iran ... perhaps they are doing this same thing again ... not allowing the final reports to
leave Iran or keeping the ME from knowing what the reports say.

OR

Perhaps it has to do with the whole world money situation as I know I read somewhere last night about China "decoupling" their money from Iran's.
Seems there's a load of this money "decoupling" going on. Maybe they want Iran to wake up in the dark and find out they've been decoupled?
(Whatever the heck the decoupling means anyway, I don't know.)

It could also be company sabotage. How do you unlock money and put people to work? Well you create a problem. Or maybe the government did it to put
people to work. I wonder if that is part of the stimulus package.

Talk about a conspiracy. Cables meant to last forever down there just suddenly
get cut should raise a few flags on all points.

Originally posted by resistor
Looks like that if anything is going to happen behind the cable-cutting, it’s going to be before Feb. 12. Then again, there could be unforeseen
delays in repair, like the weather related stuff posted earlier.

IMHO, I don't think anything is going to happen militarily. Attacks tend to happen during the new moon which I believe is the 6th. One anti-missile
ship docked in Israel really doesn't indicate imminent military action.

Ok, don't get alarmed people.. just an observation here.
but the DNS server as4808 Beijing, CN has just dropped out methinks, but only on .mil?
anyone know if this is a normal for it not to respond, as i have never looked at that particular one before.

Interesting none the less. Connected? probably not, but as promised im keeping a closer eye on the bits of the internet i an see from here. here if you want to keep an eye on dns around the world. Intermapper is a handy tool as well.

The cable breaks in isolation is only one aspect perhaps of something more integrated and not natural. What would a strike against Iran be like...
I'd stock up on "splitting the scene" in at least 4 locations in Iran...

Um, the English language version of isna.ir... not a peep about this... their launch yes. Biz ties to the UK, yes... cultural stuff, yes. Hmmm.
Mega-odd... all of it. Still can't get a site inside Iran. Has anyone had any luck? It's just after sun-up there. irna.ir has zippo other than
"Iran appeals to Islamic states to help Gazans".

It would seem those particular articles at Geostrat' would lead one to believe there is a heightened sense of awareness if not preparedness by some.
Great catch DWW.

Could Iran be simply blissfully unaware? LOL. Um, what if they can't get ATS on the web right now? Yikes! No. They're aware. It's all close
quarters in the Gulf. Couple hundred K here, another couple hundred there... missile ship in for a little R&R, couple a five data transmission
hassles, the Net is an enemy weapons system, don't need the defense act... coincidence.

It will be interesting to see what happens and who blinks or pulls the trigger first... could just be 21 century harassment and probing.

Let's hope it's just poking. I remember doing that to my brother when we were kids. Reminds folks how vulnerable they are doesn't it...being cut
off like that. No internet. No phones. If "Mom or Dad" wasn't in the front seat to rescue you when you were getting poked...well you were
literally...cut off and left to fend for yourself...like after an undersea cut cable. Take care and will be checking back. Nice to "see" you
again.

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